Line #23 VideoGame/StrayCatCrossing


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3	''Stray Cat Crossing'' is a surreal UsefulNotes/RPGMaker horror game about a girl who wanders into a house, looking to retrieve her favorite scarf, and is met instead with a host of bizarre monsters and the saddening secrets of the family within.
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5	The game was developed by Jurlo and jetpackgone and is available on Steam [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/385330/ here]].
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8	!!''Stray Cat Crossing'' contains examples of:
9	* AwfulTruth: [[spoiler: Cat's parents, her unborn twin brothers, and a blind person and their dog that Cat befriended, were all killed as an indirect result of her running away.]]
10	* BigBadDuumvirate: The game is split into three areas, and the first two have antagonists preventing the protagonist from progressing (the third has NoAntagonist):
11	** In the Basement, the Babyface Twins are preventing the protagonist from leaving, asking her to do various favors for them and [[spoiler:attacking her when she tries to leave]].
12	** In the Garden, the Spider Wolves are holding the larva captive, whom the protagonist must rescue to progress.
13	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Cat learns the truth of her past, and is in doing so forced to relive it, but also manages to forgive herself for what happened and move on.]]
14	* CallBack: Cat tells the stray cat she encounters [[spoiler: exactly what Adult Cat tells Young Cat in the beginning of the game.]]
15	** [[spoiler: Cat tells the blind character who acts as your save point that they must hold still in order to take a clear photo. When they take another photograph, they repeat the phrase "Hold st...still." They're not talking to the protagonist, they're reminding themselves!]]
16	* CharacterTitle: Zig-zagged; [[spoiler: the title refers to the protagonist, whose name is Cat, running away from home and crossing the street right before her parents crashed their car. It also refers to a literal cat, which the blind person Cat encounters is looking for, and who is the reason Cat crosses the street at all.]]
17	* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The car that nearly hits the protagonist and Cat in the beginning.]]
18	* DelinquentHair: Seemingly averted with [[spoiler: Adult Cat, who seems to have dyed and cut her hair.]]
19	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: There is a great deal of dead fetus imagery in the first portion of the game, [[spoiler: because Cat's twin brothers died along with their mother before they were born.]]
20	* EldritchLocation: The house.
21	* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: The car that drives by in the beginning and almost hits Cat and the protagonist in the beginning is the car that Cat's parents were driving when they were killed.]]
22	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Of the sort to which horror game protagonists are highly susceptible, emerging from nowhere and causing them to forget [[spoiler:everything in the plot that should be familiar to them, naturally including the Bad Thing They Did In Their Past.]]
23	* NoNameGiven: The blind person's name is never revealed.
24	* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler: Cat's parents. Zig-zagged in that this comes from the perspective of a child, and Cat's mother was expecting twins, likely causing the father to spend more time at work and the mother to spend more time preparing for their birth.]]
25	* TheRunaway: Cat.
26	* TheStinger: [[spoiler: Cat runs down the street, passing figures from the house as she goes, only to encounter the burning car of her parents.]]
27	* TheUnreveal: We never learn the blind person's name.

Context VideoGame / StrayCatCrossing